I Love Calligraphy

Even though I love all the crazy invites we get to shows, most of the time the ones I keep are the simple ones.

What I love is the calligraphy. This beautiful way to give shape to letters, the attention and the time it demands. The Balenciaga ones are the most crazy, they’re all handwritten… It really touches me.

To tell you the truth, I’ve always played so much with my pens that when I was young, I didn’t really have a writting style. People would tell me that you could see someone’s personnality in their writing, and mine would change everyday, so many times I wondered if I had no fixed personnality :)

When I see the part that writing plays today in my life (I wouldn’t call what I do calligraphy, but I get a lot of commissions to write titles or create logos) I tell myself that you really never know where your little weirdnesses can take you…

I just started taking calligraphy classes, and I’m really loving them. Our teacher said calligraphy is closer to illustration than handwriting, and I can see what she’s saying. Her next class after the alphabet teaches flourishes and other decorations, and I can’t wait for that!

I love calligraphy. And how well I remember learning how to write in cursive in elementary school! My grandfather had a big loopy script, my mother’s was more compact, my father’s more squiggly. I’d know them anywhere. Of course they weren’t “calligraphy” per se. I learned about that in college. But it makes me sad that in the age of computers they no longer teach handwriting in school.

Calligraphy…. even the word is beautiful in any font….. there is something about penmanship that is so incredibly attractive…. I like them all….. but i have to admit the Margiela is the most wonderful…. I think the ‘D’ is more beautiful and stands out because the ‘g’ is lower case..

I love beautiful handwriting and calligraphy. I always wrote with a slant so I got to write fake notes from Mom when my school friends wanted to get out of gym. ( ” Please excuse Garance from gym today. She has bad cramps.”) It breaks my heart a little to know that some schools are no longer teaching children how to write cursive.

I love your calligraphy!!! In fact I even bought a thing called Bamboo to add super nice calligraphy to my pictures because I really like what you do (and I wanted to copy it, to be honest. No personality, That’s me.). Bad idea, of course. I’m teeeeeeeeeeeeeerrible at it. I stil have to discover what I’m good at, whicht my signature style is (pun intended)… In the meantime I keep drawing silly faces with that Bamboo thing ;)
xx,
E.http://www.theslowpace.com

So true, so beautiful ! thank you Garance…
Like you I keep all my handwritten envelopes too !
I take pride in my handwriting and I handwrite a lot to the extent that I have a callus on my middle finger and I can only write with a Pilot black ink V Pen which does not explode on the plane and costs 2.5 euros, the closest you can get to a fountain pen without the hassle of the cartridges , but the problem is that after so much time spent on the computer you have to retrain your mind and coordinate your hand because the mind goes faster than the hand when you are hand-writing and you make a ton of mistakes
Cursive is for me a form of meditation because you need to focus and slow down your galloping brain

I was very shocked a month ago when I was in LA at my friends’s home and their 5 children ages 6 to 11 were doing their homework on the computer . No more handwriting , just a screen on the school’s website that the kids use to type in their answers….including spelling tests ! for me spelling and hand writing should go together , it is a skill and it involves thinking , focus and concentration.http://www.fashionsphinx.com

…uuu my favorite is Dior so elegant !!! Yes handwriting is in this time something miracle… I like it very,very much ….Your name of blog was the first interesting place where I put my eyes and falt in love!! By the way You have absolutely right…. man never know what will do in the future… I had such strange situation…

I would definitely call your handwriting style calligraphy! Calligraphy is an art form that encompasses all sorts of styles today, from classic and traditional to more free form. It is beautiful and expressive!

What is your process?! Sorry, I’m sure you’ve mentioned it somewhere before but i just can’t remember. Do you tend to write your text by hand, scan it in, place it over image, etc etc? Or are you all digital?
All the best!
Jess

During my erasmus in paris I lived with the woman who made them. She did these cards at night, in a tiny studio to buy tickets for a year long stay in thailand with her daughter. One of the most amazing person I’ve ever met.